One in five women and one in seven men experienced forced sex during their time in college.

Compared to other crimes, sexual violence is more prevalent than many other crimes at many universities. IU is no different. But students are standing on both sides – some say IU has made progress in cutting it down, but others believe their experience on campus leaves room for improvement.

“Everything IU is doing is a front, is a front to make them look like they actually care about this issue and absolutely doing the minimum,” said Ellie Johnson, a sexual assault survivor.

She is also the founder of “Shatter the Silence” – an organization to raise awareness of sexual violence among IU students and to demand action from the university.

There were 164 reports of sexual misconduct on IU Bloomington last year, and often rapes are occur in places where students should feel safe. Johnson says there are predators all across on campus, and she believes IU should increase supervision. She says in  the meantime, students need to wake up to the idea that it can happen to them.

“The key is to start local and making these changes and starting initiatives and then expanding it,” Johnson said. “Once we can address what’s going on here at IU and create resources we can distribute them to students at other schools.”

IU agrees that  education and prevention are also keys.

Your voice matters. #ItsOnUs to end sexual violence at IUPUI.

Students: check your IU email for an important survey on sexual misconduct. pic.twitter.com/652xqfc3oH

— IUPUI (@IUPUI) March 27, 2019

The university administered the second sexual assault climate survey to students on March 20, 2019. The survey allows officials to examine the incidence of sexual violence occurring within the community, the attitudes among students toward sexual assault, and the awareness of resources available on campus.

“This is actually something that we’ll help  inform those prevention efforts, so part of what we are doing with the survey is asking students what they are aware of about what prevention efforts they know that Indiana University is pushing out; what prevention methods they are aware of,” IU Spokesperson Chuck Carney said.

Carneyo says nly half of undergraduate and graduate students will receive the survey link in their email. They are selected at random. But people who did not receive invitations and would like to give feedback can email to itsonus@iu.edu.

“One (rape) is more than we want,” Carney said. “We don’t want any to happens.”

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